Arriving in this world on Aug. 4, 1918 in Sapulpa, Vera June Harton was the fifth of six daughters born to Benjamin McFerrian and Vera Brown Harton. In the very early hours of Nov. 6, 2005, she departed from us to live eternally with our Heavenly Father.

Blessed with exceptional intelligence and unflinching determination, she was the "little sister" who lived a life that would alternately delight, gratify and confound her family.

June established welcoming homes, always filled with good friends, good food and good conversation. She accomplished this while working six days a week as proprietress of Merle Norman Cosmetics Studios in Sweetwater, Snyder and Midland, Texas.

Having no children of her own, she loved and delighted in those of her sisters; Benjamin Harton Robinson, Buddy Harton Bryant, William E. Bryant, Benjamin J. Bryant, Barry L. Bryant, Paula Outcalt Gwaltney, Linda Outcalt Parker, Gloria Outcalt Broussard, Samuel D. Lewis, and Steven Patrick Odil.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister Estahlee Harton Lewis; and nephew Buddy Harton Bryant; sisters Juanita Harton Scott of Boonville, Mo., Coleta Harton Bryant, of Tulsa, Mary Gene Harton Outcalt, of Granbury, Texas, and Joy Carol Harton Davis, of Austin, Texas; several cousins; great-nieces; great-nephews; and a close circle of great pals in her Castlewood neighborhood.

In recent months her dearest wish was to remain in her home. That wish became reality through the generous presence of an amazing caregiver Beverly Simmons. June came to love her, and the family will forever be grateful for her considerable effort in June's behalf.

June's father was pleased to claim that each of his daughters had been "rocked in the Methodist cradle." Her final church home was Oak Hill United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas.

June will finally rest alongside family in her hometown of Sapulpa.

Long ago, she proclaimed that her epitaph should simply say, "She had a kind heart," and so it did.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 at Smith Funeral Home Chapel.

Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements

Submitted by Anne Leach November 2005